Survey Rules

How to use the PhpESP system installed on http://survey.mi.fu-berlin.de

User Workflow

• Request a new user account from Stephan Salinger.
• Design your survey using the management interface at http://survey.mi.fu-berlin.de
• Switch the survey to testing and run a pilot test.
• Enable the survey, link to it from SurveyHome and define an end-date.
• Stop the survey and retrieve the results.

Customizing the design

• PHPESP only supports minimal customization using CSS. To do so put your CSS into the folder /htdocs/public/css/ and then select it using the Theme setting on the General tab of the Edit menu of the survey.
• More elaborate customizing should look at the handler.php in the /htdocs/public/ folder.

Best practice

• Once you start a survey, you cannot change it anymore unless you create a copy with a different name. Thus you should start with a title that includes a number (for instance MySurvey1) and increment that number each time you do a test. For the final survey you then still have the original name (MySurvey in our case).

Administrator Information

• The files of the survey system are located on \\web\survey.mi.fu-berlin.de
• To change the html and layout of the system you need to modify the files /htdocs/public/survey.php and /htdocs/public/aggregate.css
• The login-form was customized to point to this page in the file \htdocs\admin\include\lib\esphtml.forms.inc

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